Knit-wire fabric.



" km M7/QW No. 551,557. Patented June l2, |900 A. M. REEvEs a H. w. WHEELER.

KNIT WIRE FABRIC.

(Application led Feb. 8, 1900.) (No Model.)

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4NiTiED STATES PATENT ABBOTT M. REEVES AND HARRY KNIT-WIRE FABRIC.

SSEeIF'ICATIoN forming part of Letters Patent No. 651,557, dated June 12, 1900.

' application neareamy 8.11900. serrano. 4,452. (Numan.)

To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ABBOTT M. REEvEs and HARRY W. WHEELER, of the city of Indianapolis, county of Marion, and State of Indiana, have invented a certain new and useful Wire Fabric, of which the following is a v specification.

This invention relates to wire fabric adapted for matting, rugs, and carpets. It is exemplified in the structure hereinafter described, and it is defined in the appended claims. The fabric is made of wire knit together after the manner of yarn, so far as the formation of wales by the interlinit loops is concerned; but the runs or extensions-that connect one Wale with another are bent downward away from the tread-surface formed by the wales. The connecting-'bends are preferably of semicircnlar conformation, and they extend obliquely away from the general snrfaee of the fabric,- so as to enable the elasticity of the extensions to be utilized, and as a matter of preference a row of bends between two Wales is inclined in one direction and the next adjacent row is inclined in the opposite direction.

In the drawings forming part of this speciA cation, Figure l is a plan of a fragment of the fabric. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the fragment. Fig. 3 is a diagram in end elevation, showing the relation of the supportingbends to the surface-forming wales.

The wales formed by the interknitted loops are shown at 1, at 2 are shown rows of waleconnecting bends extended obliquely downward from the wales in one direction, and at 3 are shown rows of Wale-connecting bends extended obliquely downward from the wales in the opposite direction.

The wales l form the tread of the carpet, while the intermediate bends 2 and 3 form a support for the wales, raising them clear of the floor and sustaining them elastically.

The wire used may be of any desired sine and quality, the fabric may be knit in any desired shape and size, and the strips may be bound in any manner desired.

1. A knit-wire fabric in which the connections between wales are laid all to one side of the surface of the wales and extended away therefrom.'

2. A knit-wire fabric in which the connections between wales are arc-formed and extended all to one side of and away from the surface of the wales.

3. A knit-wire fabric in which the connections between wales extend obliqnely on one side of the surface of the wales and away therefrom.

4:. A knit-wirey fabric in which the rows of connections between wales extend all to one side of the surface of the wales and in which each alternate row of connections is inclined in a direction opposed to the inclination of the rows next adjacent.

5. A knit-wire fabric for mats and the like in which the wales form the tread-surface and the connections between wales form supportsy for the tread-surface.

In testimony whereof we sign our names in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ABBOTT M. REEVES. HARRY WV. VHEELER.

Witnesses:

ED VON SPREoxELsEN, THOMAS HULsIzER. 

